Finished

I finished all of those Elric books. Why did I do that to myself? What a semi-coherent collection of contrived under characterized crap brimming with lame deus ex machinas every single time there was a conflict. Still some of the lurid psychedelic aspects were fun, and perhaps useful and inspirational to later authors. I kept wanting these books to be better than they were, and they stayed pretty consistently pulpy crap. All their failings did provide ample room for my imagination to go wild with how I'd rather they played out though, I guess. That's something, leaving room for the imagination to fill in ... more interesting events than were happening in the books. Its very hard to have any sort of drama with as little coherence between events or in the plotting as it had. I can't believe what the long set up relationship arc between Elric and Arioch turned into. Moorcock really liked anticlimax I think.

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You can literally see the woman in pink's faith in humanity leaving her as Stephen Fry mentions some facts about our Police State.